Director, Talent Acquisition - Field - Military Veterans
at WM (Formerly Waste Management)
JOB DESCRIPTION
Equal Opportunity Employer: Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran
Waste Management (WM), a Fortune 250 company, is the leading provider of comprehensive waste and environmental services in North America. We are strongly committed to a foundation of operating excellence, professionalism and financial strength. WM serves nearly 25 million customers in residential, commercial, industrial and municipal markets throughout North America through a network of collection operations, transfer stations, landfills, recycling facilities and waste-based energy production projects.
I. Job Summary
The Director, Talent Acquisition - Field will lead the field talent acquisition function by executing strategic plans consistent with long-term objectives to attract, develop, retain, and deploy talent to drive the strategic business goals of the company. This position has responsibility for providing thought leadership, consultative support, and project management for key talent attraction initiatives such as forecasting, workforce planning, apprenticeships, internal movement, and budgeting. Reports into the Senior Director, Talent Acquisition and is a key member of the TA leadership team.
II. Duties and Responsibilities
- Works with senior leadership to deliver strategy for the field talent acquisition function. Recommends and communicates clear objectives that address the needs of the business for salaried and hourly positions, including RPO strategy if appropriate.
- Develop and oversee strategic sourcing and recruiting strategies to ensure the team can flex and adapt to meet business needs and that both the candidate experience and hiring manager experience are optimized.
- Manage relationship with Talent Acquisition partners including third party and RPO providers.
- Responsible for partnering with Human Resources and WM Centers of Expertise to provide the company with a consistent and effective recruiting process.
- Ensures that all recruitment policies and processes conform with federal and local employment statutes and company policy.
- Reviews and evaluates the field recruiting performance on a continuous basis and establishes proper measures of performance.
- Provides coaching and development to team members. Sets expectations and effectively measures team contribution, performance, and results delivered.
- Other duties may be assigned as needed.
The highest level of supervisory skills required in this job is the management of managerial employees. This includes:
- Direct supervision of 5 full-time employees, including:
- Indirect supervision of 40 full-time employees and 70 RPO employees
The requirements listed below are representative of the qualifications necessary to perform the job. Must live and work in the US.
A. Education and Experience
Required: Bachelor's Degree, or equivalent experience, and ten or more years previous experience in an HR related role. Three years' experience of managing a team of HR professionals is required.
Preferred: Seven or more years' experience leading a staffing function in a large (20,000+ employees), decentralized company.
B. Certificates, Licenses, Registrations or Other Requirements
None required.
C. Other Knowledge, Skills or Abilities
- Excellent interpersonal, cross-cultural communication, diversity, organizational and problem-solving skills
- Ability to understand key fundamentals of the business and determine the people resources needed to support the execution of the company's operations and strategy
- Strong leadership, team building and management skills
- Able to occasionally travel to the Houston office and across the business areas as required.
- Location (Remote) - Houston, TX is preferred.
- Office: This job primarily operates in a professional office environment and routinely requires the use of standard office equipment such as computers, phones, copy machines, etc.
Benefits
At WM, each eligible employee receives a competitive total compensation package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance and Short-Term Disability. As well as a Stock Purchase Plan, Company match on 401K, and more! Our employees also receive Paid Vacation, Holidays, and Personal Days.
If this sounds like the opportunity that you have been looking for, please click "Apply".
Houston, TX

Be as proud of your WM career as you are of your military service
The call of reveille is a sound that signals the beginning of a new day. It serves as a reminder of purpose and mission. While the bugle may not wake you when you return to your civilian life, at WM, you will find that sense of purpose and mission that is so familiar.
You will likely work with a fellow veteran at WM because one in twelve of our employees is former military. In fact, we hire a veteran every day of the year.
Our non-veteran employees have shown endless support for military heroes. Many in the WM community have spouses, brothers, sisters, sons, daughters, parents and grandparents who have served, just like you.
We have over 1,000 facilities and most operate like a platoon. Each facility requires people with strong skills and leadership experience. This small unit mentality promotes creative and enterprising thinking – something familiar to you. WM currently has openings in the fields of:
- Operations
- Mechanic
- Transportation
- Human Resources
- Information Technology
Our mission of environmental service may be different from the military. However, WM and the Military share many common traits; the most important being the drive to be the best.
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